meteor - Unable to install meteorite on Ubuntu VM

Question

I run Win7 and install Ubuntu 12.04.3 in Oracle VM VirtualBox 4.3.6.

First thing I do is try to install meteorite, but get the following error:

npm install -g meteorite
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/meteorite

npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: meteorite
npm ERR!     at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
npm ERR!     at cb (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:31:9)
npm ERR!     at Request._callback (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:136:18)
npm ERR!     at Request.callback (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:119:22)
npm ERR!     at Request.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:212:58)
npm ERR!     at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:412:12)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.onIncoming (http.js:1261:11)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.onHeadersComplete (http.js:102:31)
npm ERR! You may report this log at:
npm ERR!     <http://bugs.debian.org/npm>
npm ERR! or use
npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /home/rune/npm-debug.log npm
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-29-generic
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "meteorite"
npm ERR! cwd /home/rune
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: meteorite
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/rune/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

Answer 1

Apparently, Meteor installs its own node and npm and you shouldn't mix these with system or other node or npm installations.

I was searching this for a long time and created/destroyed many EC2 instances until I found the solution.

After curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh simply export the path so your shell can find Meteor's npm:

export PATH=~/.meteor/tools/latest/bin:$PATH does it for .bash-profile.

This allowed me to easily install meteorite, without sudo: npm install -g meteorite

I learned this from https://github.com/oortcloud/meteorite/issues/203